The campaign confirmed the move to reporter Andy Sher, who spotted the evidence of the buy in Federal Communications Commission filings.

The Boyd campaign has reserved ad time on broadcast and cable stations in the Chattanooga, Tri-Cities, Knoxville, Nashville, and Memphis television markets.

“We’re going up Thursday,” campaign CEO Chip Saltsman told the newspaper. “We’re excited to start the process of introducing introducing Randy through TV and we’ve already spent the last year doing it in person and visiting 95 counties and putting almost 60,000 miles” on the Chattanooga-made Volkswagen Atlas that Boyd bought near the start of his campaign.